The two-year review has prompted the UoR to adopt a new centralised operational model for administrative services and streamline services by altering job roles, offering voluntary severance packages and making redundancies.

But president of Reading University's Students' Union (RUSU) Oli Ratcliffe says the campaign 'Students Against PAS' is gaining momentum and senior university staff are beginning to pay attention to the objectors.

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He said: "The whole point of this campaign against PAS is to see where the university will compromise.

"At the moment the university is saying the decision has been made and the support centres will be introduced, in their view it is two thirds of the way through so they can't pull the plug.

"So we have to campaign as much as we can and push the university to make as many compromises as they physically can, whether that is delaying it, phasing it in or doing it on a school-level approach.

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"They have to respond to what students are saying, they are now beginning to, but whether that is enough only time will tell.

"The university now has to respond to the student's concerns, it can't continue saying 'we have heard you but we're doing it anyway', they need to start saying 'we have heard you and this is our answer to that."

He added: "We've just been invited to the implementation group, myself and the education officer will be the representing voice there. These group sessions will be held within the next two weeks.

"We already have the NSS [National Student Survey] response and the feedback we have got online, so we are gathering the testimony and as much clout as we can. We will take that to these meetings."

RUSU is calling for the university to reconsider the overhaul, which will impact on 1,500 jobs and get rid of administrative staff who are highly valued by students, but it has not made any specific demands.

Students protesting the impending job cuts (Image: Natasha Rose)

However, the union also realises time is running out as the university plans to implement all of the changes by Monday, August 1.

He said: "The campaign against PAS is gaining momentum massively, the issue is very much alive on social media, there are updates every day and students are doing all of this off their own backs.

"The profile of this issue is huge at the moment, there are posters are around campus and its all over social media.

"The more numbers we get behind the campaign the more the university is going to listen and this campaign is impossible to ignore at the moment."

"We are trying to make sure they are effective in their campaign and not kicking up a fuss for no reason, we want to make sure they channel it in the right area.

"A lot of people have come up to ask about campaigning and how to effectively campaign and how do they best influence what the university is doing.

"It's a grassroots campaign and we are going to facilitate the students ideas, listening to what they have to say and feeding that back to the university.

"The university have started to elude to the fact that they need to listen to these issues and respond. They haven't show any signs that they are willing to compromise yet but they have acknowledged the student's points."

He added: "The students value the sense of community and the local knowledge these members of administrate staff have, they value it highly and would prefer it to this one-size fits all model the university wants to introduce."